"The main strategic goals of modernising higher education have already been determined. We must build a flexible educational system that should meet the demands of society in general and its members in particular. It is important to introduce modern programmes of education and methods of assessing its quality. It is this system that will give young specialists a chance to find a worthy place in the labour market, and will ensure permanent growth of the quality of labour by granting a wide range of services on professional retraining and upgrading of skills".
"As you know, today the world and this country are undergoing economic difficulties that also affect higher education. First of all, it is important to make sure that those students who pay for their education are able to do so. Another very important and urgent issue is employment."
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin met with Tomsk Governor Viktor Kress
Vladimir Putin and Viktor Kress discussed the social and economic situation in the Tomsk Region.
During the linkup with Kiev, Mr Putin stressed the necessity of developing Russian-Ukrainian educational and scientific contacts. "Such pooled efforts in personnel training and research would certainly promote our industries, especially high technologies," he said, adding that Ukraine was known for high-tech industries, in particular, ship and aircraft building.
He saw its new 17-story dormitory and laboratories.
Mr Zubkov said that “grain growing remains a priority area of agricultural production,” and that “grain has been and will always be” an invariably high demand product. Therefore, there is a need to consider increasing the areas sown to grain, and to raise the quality of seed grain.
Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov chaired a meeting of the Government Commission on Export Control
Mr Ivanov said that the export of dual-purpose equipment grew by almost one-third last year and amounted to $6.568 billion.
